On Sunday 06 June 2010 17:12:46 Jerry wrote:
> FreeBSD-8.0 STABLE / amd64
>> After updating (gettext) the NVIDIA driver no longer worked in Xorg, nor
> was it being loaded at boot-up even thought it was in
> the /boot/loader.conf file and had worked correctly priviously. I am
> also unable to load it manually.
>> kldload nvidia
>> KLD nvidia.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
> kldload: can't load nvidia: Exec format error
>> kldstat
>> Id Refs Address Size Name
> 1 12 0xffffffff80100000 ddd800 kernel
> 2 1 0xffffffff81022000 399f linprocfs.ko
> 3 1 0xffffffff81026000 1c4e8 linux.ko
>> "kldstat -v" doesn't reveal anything interesting either.
>> I have removed and reinstalled the NVIDIA driver
> (nvidia-driver-195.36.15) twice without any success.
>> This only started after updating 'gettext'. Everything else appears to
> be working correctly.
Are your kernel sources in sync with the kernel you're running? Did you
rebuild the driver? (i.e. make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean)
You need to have the exact version of the sources you used to build the
kernel.
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Pieter de Goeje